Clothes-drier.



A. KINZELTI l CLOTHES DRIE'R.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.28, l9l4.

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A.l KINZELT, CLOTHES DRIER.

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Application filed September 28, 1914. Serial No. 863,898.

T0 all whom it may concern -Be it known that l, AUGUST KI NZ ELT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lind, in the county of Adams and State of 'Washingtom have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Driers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in clothes driers of the class in which the clothes to be dried are hung in a dry room and dried by the circulation of air about them. Hot air coming in contact with the wet clothes evaporates the water clinging to them and conducts the steam so formed throughl a suitable passageway where partial condensation may take place, the resulting water being caught in a suitable pan, and the remaining steam and hot gas is drawn into the ash pit and up through the fire grate and passed through the smoke chamber and out through the chimney.

The invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter fully described in the following specification, pointed out in the claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings which form a part of said specification and in which Figure 1 is a front view of my improved clothes drier. Fig. 2Y is a section taken on line 2 2 of Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a section taken on line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a section taken on line 4 4 of F ig. 2. Fig. 5 is a section taken on line 5 5 of Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a section taken on line 6 6 of Fig. 1. Fig. 7 is a detail of a portion of the clothes line and supporting means therefor. Fig. 8 is a front view of Fig. 7. Fig. 9 is a view of the fan.

Like reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The reference numeral 1 designates a housing, the upper portion of which comprises a dry room into which the door 2, 2 open that are hinged to the housing. The lower portion of the housing comprises the furnace provided with the coal door 3 and ash door 4. Within the upper part of the dry room is a transverse shaft 5 which extends through one wall of that room and carries the hand wheel 6 by which it may be rotated. Cog wheels 7, 7 secured upon the shaft 5 at the sides of the dry room are chain-connected to cog-wheels 8, 8 mounted upon stub shafts carried by the housing and said chain connection 8a also extends to and over a cog wheel 9 disposed upon a stub shaft secured to the housing in the opposite end of the dry'room. The clothes to be dried are hung upon the lineA 10 which is a wire line carried by the chain 8a.

l/Vithin the housing between the dry roomA and the furnace is a lining 11 which supports the wire mesh 12, 13 which forms the floor of the dry room and said portions 12 and 13 are separated from each other by partition 14. A partition 15Vdisposed below the screen 12, 13 is supported by the lining 11 and carries a rotary fan shaft 16, carrying a fan 17, which is driven by bevel gear connection 18 with a shaft 19 which extends out through the housing and carries a pinion 20 in mesh with a toothed wheel 21 provided with and driven by a handle 22. Below the fan 17 the radiator 23 is disposed which extends across the fire box 24 and smoke chamber 25 which communicates with chimney 25a, which is separated therefrom by fire Y wall 26 which is formed with a smoke passageway 27. The smoke chamber is provided with a wall 27 a about which the smoke and gas may pass and with a partition 28 and below the same is the condensation chamber 28a. The drip pan 29 inthe chamber`28a is provided with the faucet 30; and an opening 31 formed in the fire wall 26 below the grate 32 in the re box communi- Cates with thelash pit 33. Y

From the dry room a passageway 34 leads down into the condensation chamber. When the doors 2, 2 are open the clothes may be hung upon the -line 10 inthe dry room. Fire is then started in the re-box and the gas and hot air arising from the same passes about the partition 15 through the screen 12, 13 and into the dry room about the wet clothes. By turning the handle 22 the fanr 17 is rotated and a forced air circulation generated. The hot air and gas vaporizes the water in the clothes and the gas, steam and air pass out through the passageway 34 and into the condensation chamber 28a. Here any water formed by condensation of the steam is caught in the drip pan 29, from which it may beV drawn off by faucet 30, and the remaining steam, gas and air is drawn by the fire through the opening 31 Vin the re wall into the ash pit and up through the grate 32 into the fire box and it then passes with the smoke out through the opening 27 in the fire wall into the smoke chamber 25 from which it escapes up the chimney 25a.

As the clothes are hung, one at a time, upon the line 10 the line may be advanced by rotating the hand wheel 6.

What is claimed is: Y. e

1. In a clothes drier, a dry room provided with a screen fioor, clothes supporting means within said dry room, a fan disposed below said screen Hoor, a fire box below said fan, a smoke chamber adjacent to and communicating with said lire box, a radiator extending along the top of said fire box and smoke chamber, a condensation chamber partitioned off from said smoke chamber, a passageway connecting said dry room and said condensation chamber, a passageway connecting said condensation chamber and fire box and a chimney in said smoke room.

2. In a clothes drier, a dryy room provided with a screen floor, movable clothes supporting means within said dry room, a fire box, a smoke chamber adjacent thereto and connected therewith, a radiator extending along the top of said lire box and smoke chamber, a condensation chamber partitioned off from said smoke chamber, a drip pan, provided with a faucet, disposed in said condensation chamber, a passageway connecting said dry room and condensation chamber, a passageway connecting said condensation chamber and fire box, a chimney in said smoke chamber and manually operable means disposed between said lire box and screen floor for forcing the gases within said dry room out through the passageway communicating therewith.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

AUGUST KINZELT.

Witnesses H. S. SNEAD, E. C. Poom.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the C'ommssoner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

